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. iv. OCT. 7,1965.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 291 Since writing the above I find that the subject was very fully discussed at the follow- ing references : 7th S. ix. 107. 169, 277 ; x. 18, 356. JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. Add Middleton, in Teesdale. R. B—E. South Shields. In Cornwall are several, e.g., at Mylor, Tal- land, Gunwalloe, Gwennap, and Feock. At Lamorran an old tower has been allowed to stand when a new church was built close by, and the same has occurred at Illogan. YGREC. The quaint belfry of Brookland (Romney Marsh, Kent) has been sketched and de- scribed by Mr. C. G. Harper in his recent work on' The Ingoldsby Country.' " Imagine," he says, " three old-fashioned candle-extinguishers, placed one upon the other, and you have that odd campanile very closely imitated. It stands apart from the church, is of massive oak framing, weather-boarded, and thickly and most liberally tarred." Mr. Harper thinks " the real reason for this detached wooden belfry " is the waterlogged site not being "capable of giving support to so heavy a structure as a stone tower," and he adds a local legend which all Brookland people will thank me for not repeating here. F. A. W. I have seen the following :— St. Mary's, Marstou Morteyne, Beds. SS. Mary and Helena, Elstow, Beds. St. Mary Magd., Fleet. Lines (with spire). St. Mary, West Walton, Norfolk (very fine). St. Clement, Terrington, Norfolk. St. Mary, Long Sutton, Lines (with spire). The last-named is not absolutely detached, but just touches the south-west angle of the south aisle. The cause of the detachment of Terrington St. Clement's and its prospect of reattach- inent must be learnt from local informants. H. K. ST. J. 8. Bedford. Beccles, in Suffolk, must be added to the list of churches having a detached bell-tower of ancient date. If wooden structures carrying the bell, or bells, were included in the inquiry, many examples could probably be given. I. CHALKLEY GOULD. Some forty or fifty years ago, when I used to exercise^ my tutor's gay little pony in Herefordshire, I remember exploring Pem- bridge, Titley, &c., and, if my memory does not play me false, the steeple at Pembridge stood detached, like an Italian campanile. W. K. W. CHAFY. At Lapworth, in Warwickshire, the belfry is connected with the church by a covered passage. At Pembridge, in Herts, the detached belfry is built entirely of wood, the frame in which the bells are hung rising at once from the ground, with merely a casing of boards. A. R. BAYLEY. [MR. G. A. AUDEN, MR. W. M. BYWATER, MR. J. DORMER, B. W., and DR. GREVILLK WALPOLE are also thanked for replies.] GEOEOE III.'s DAUGHTERS (10th S. iv. 167, 236).—To any one fairly acquainted with the history of George III.'s Court, the story of the lives of the six beautiful golden-haired princesses must appeal, entailing mingled feelings of interest and sympathy. Their fair faces, as they appeared in youth, depicted by Gainsborough, Hoppner, and Beechey, still gaze from the walls of Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and as each grew up, gracious and graceful, suitors were talked of for their respective hands; but years sped by and they remained long unwed. Perhaps their royal father shuddered at the prospect of any repetition of the disastrous Danish marriage of his younger sister Matilda, or the loveless union of his elder sister Augusta to the Duke of Brunswick. Or perhaps the prudent Queen Charlotte re- flected in those revolutionary days that no continental Courts offered any prospect of a peaceful or permanent establishment for her children. Whatever the causes, however, may have been, it was not till 1797 that the Princess Royal, then in her thirty-first year, was married to the Hereditary Prince of Wurtem- berg, a widower, whose first wife had perished under sinister circumstances, boding little happiness for the English bride ; but the alliance proved fortunate in all respects, the princess quickly acquiring esteem and popularity in her adopted country, where she died as Queen-Dowager, 6 Oct., 1828. Princess Augusta, born in 1768, was two years junior to the Princess Royal. She lived and died an old maid : plump, good- natured, not averse to the pleasures of the table, she appears to have been perhaps the most amiable member of the whole royal family. When her brother William became king, she was invited to become a regular inmate of his Court, where she remained installed throughout his reign. She died